Monochrome (is not always a black and white issue)

[James Clark]

I missed all the lines and architecture, but if I hadn't I would have contributed this

PS - If you missed 'em since i flipped the page, go back and look at Ivo's & Slobodan's portraits, Matt's ice and Armand's floral posted just a little bit earlier today - good stuff!  (I always feel a little bad for flipping a page not too long after the last post on the previous one).

[MattBurt]

It's starting to get cold.

[Ivophoto]

I missed all the lines and architecture, but if I hadn't I would have contributed this

PS - If you missed 'em since i flipped the page, go back and look at Ivo's & Slobodan's portraits, Matt's ice and Armand's floral posted just a little bit earlier today - good stuff!  (I always feel a little bad for flipping a page not too long after the last post on the previous one).

Your images is a good reason to flip the page!

Cheers.

Ivo.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Chicago. And a puff of smoke.

[rabanito]

Gates
Catamarca - Argentina

[James Clark]

Your images is a good reason to flip the page!

Cheers.

Ivo.

Appreciate that

[John R]

A more gradual change.

JR

[JNB_Rare]

Communications Cannon.

[John R]

Communications Cannon.

Nah. It's the tin man blowing his stack. He can't stand the modern city. Wonderful bw tonality.

JR

[JNB_Rare]

Wonderful bw tonality.

Thank-you

Studies, in Black and White. A simple photograph that could be processed in so many different ways – contrast, shadow and highlight detail, colour toning perhaps, and so on. I often find that it takes me even longer to be satisfied with a monochrome rendering than a colour one. Someone else might make very different choices, of course, and produce a very different image. In fact, I've done that myself sometimes, when revisiting an image.

[JNB_Rare]

In the alley beside the Chinese grocer. Revisited rendering.

[John R]

Thank-you

Studies, in Black and White. A simple photograph that could be processed in so many different ways – contrast, shadow and highlight detail, colour toning perhaps, and so on. I often find that it takes me even longer to be satisfied with a monochrome rendering than a colour one. Someone else might make very different choices, of course, and produce a very different image. In fact, I've done that myself sometimes, when revisiting an image.

This one has more dramatic lighting, yet calming; I think because of the environment and what the subjects are projecting to the viewer. Excellent.

JR

[John R]

In the alley beside the Chinese grocer. Revisited rendering.

Are you sure you don't see in bw? What would this image be without the excellent tonality. Good, maybe. But with this rendering, it just comes to life.

JR

[MattBurt]

Frosty cottonwoods this morning. I find winter landscapes often lend themselves well to monochrome renderings.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Frosty cottonwoods this morning. I find winter landscapes often lend themselves well to monochrome renderings.

Other than the sun, which drags my eye and won't let go, it's a fine image.

Jeremy

[JNB_Rare]

Frosty cottonwoods this morning. I find winter landscapes often lend themselves well to monochrome renderings.

I like this one even better than the one above on this page. The backlighting really makes it!

[John R]

Other than the sun, which drags my eye and won't let go, it's a fine image.

Jeremy

It does grab your eye, but it is part of the scene and you instantly recognize why it is there. It's the sun in sun filled image. That's the way I look at it.

JR

[John R]

Every step you take, ...I will be watching you... soft shadows and all.

JR

[JNB_Rare]

Ice in the river.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Ice in the river.

Very good. The first is the better.

Jeremy